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Committee lays over bill creating competitive AGRI grant process; A1 amendment adds testing, biomonitoring and wastewater surveillance
Summary
House File 2,579 would create competitive AgriWorks/AgriSupport grant processes within the AGRI appropriation and the committee adopted an A1 amendment adding retail milk testing, biomonitoring of workers and wastewater surveillance for further work.
House File 2,579, carried by Chair Hansen, would consolidate many smaller legislative direct appropriations into competitive grant processes administered through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s AGRI appropriation (creating programs described as AgriWorks and AgriSupport). The intent is to increase transparency and standardize application, award and accountability procedures for grants previously made as narrow legislative earmarks.
Paul Hugenen, director of the Ag Marketing and Development Division at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, described how the department would run a competitive request-for-proposal…
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